About removing global variables

Colin Putney cputney at wiresong.ca
Tue Nov 30 19:10:56 UTC 2004


 > On Nov 30, 2004, at 1:43 AM, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:

 >> Just curious about the total lack of feedback on my post in this
 >> thread where I showed how my Namespaces could handle this. :)

Brian Rice wrote:
> It's quite simple: There's not enough attention span to go around to 
> cover or meaningfully debate any interesting ideas on this list. It's 
> taxing just to follow ODBC discussions, let alone try to appreciate 
> everyone's opinion and solution on global namespace structure.

Why so cynical, Brian?

My own guess is that the last discussion we had on Namespaces was so 
long, impassioned, exhausting, and ultimately inconclusive that no one 
wants to get drawn into another one, particularly since there's nothing 
new to talk about.

Colin



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